Day: September 13, 2004

obligatory JLU post

You know the reason they really didn’t need the Flash this season? He was the comedic balance on JL, and they’ve taken care of the comedy without him in spades. And right now, it’s been all good, but if you throw in Flash, maybe it gets off balance. That said, the first episode with him … Continue reading “obligatory JLU post”

You know the reason they really didn’t need the Flash this season? He was the comedic balance on JL, and they’ve taken care of the comedy without him in spades. And right now, it’s been all good, but if you throw in Flash, maybe it gets off balance.

That said, the first episode with him should explain where he’s been. All I’m asking for is a toss off line about him fighting aliens in deep dark space or whatever.

This episode was quite the nice 95 minute action movie distilled into 22 minutes by getting rid of all subplots. You could call all the spots before they happened, but they’re still fun spots.

Besides lecturing about crowd control, Batman‘s been a busy guy.

God actually prefers Johan

Is Curt Schilling’s 740 outs more important than Rivera’s 240 when the season is over? That’s for a higher entity to decide – Gammons, 09/12 A higher entity? I’m personally hoping higher entities have better things to do than to decide who gets a silly trophy. (Unless God is Bill James. Then it all makes … Continue reading “God actually prefers Johan”

Is Curt Schilling’s 740 outs more important than Rivera’s 240 when the season is over? That’s for a higher entity to decide – Gammons, 09/12

A higher entity? I’m personally hoping higher entities have better things to do than to decide who gets a silly trophy.

(Unless God is Bill James. Then it all makes sense.)

The great thing about the article is it’s presented as Gammons plays as if he’s going to actually pick someone to win an award, but just lists a whole bunch of names without associtated himself with a particular one.

picky

Did I win again? Four way tie, I think, because I was the only one to figure Benoit and Regal would win. Something happy had to happen on the dreadful show. You know it’s bad when Rick doesn’t even offer a directional thumb on the end of his recap. (Edit: I was wrong. Stupid counting.) … Continue reading “picky”

Did I win again? Four way tie, I think, because I was the only one to figure Benoit and Regal would win. Something happy had to happen on the dreadful show. You know it’s bad when Rick doesn’t even offer a directional thumb on the end of his recap.

(Edit: I was wrong. Stupid counting.)

When I saw Saturday that we’d gone 8-0 on two different matches, I figured one was going be off. WWE being too cute to save Tajiri and Rhyno winning the tag team titles on RAW. Whatever.

The PPV killed off (Steven Richards and) Scott’s RAW recaps, FWIW. Stupid Unforgiven. I refuse to forgive you.

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SFG — 18 OFF CHC 1.0 22 Maddux v PIT Brooks HOU 1.0 18 OFF FLA 2.5 23 Beckett n MON Kim @ the Cell SDP 2.5 19 Wells @ LAD Perez PHI 4.5 19 Floyd @ CIN Wilson Didn’t watch yesterday’s game. Thanks. Cabera totally got intentionally plunked for mocking Alou and I guess … Continue reading “down”

SFG --- 18 OFF
CHC 1.0 22 Maddux v PIT Brooks
HOU 1.0 18 OFF
FLA 2.5 23 Beckett n MON Kim @ the Cell
SDP 2.5 19 Wells @ LAD Perez
PHI 4.5 19 Floyd @ CIN Wilson

Didn’t watch yesterday’s game. Thanks. Cabera totally got intentionally plunked for mocking Alou and I guess we can add the Marlins to another team the Cubs are due for a brawl with it (Cardinals just because, Astros and it may even happen if they meet in a playoff game).

I was hoping the Cubs would split with the Marlins; it’s not taking series from the good teams that’s as important/expected to me as beating the bad teams. This is the week to show if they can do that; while the Cubs have two dead teams (PIT, @CIN), everyone else has playoff teams or playoff contenders (SF has a series against SD, HOU against STL, FLA against ATL, SD against SF and LA which is a possible killer week). If the Cubs can take both series and go 5-2 while other teams go 3-3, they’re back in the lead.

What a sad excuse of a baseball team are the Philadelphia Phillies. Yea, they’ve squeezed back into the outreaches of the race in September, but that only points how much they’ve failed – they should be at the top of this race, not just hanging in. If they actually could beat the Marlins, if they actually made a manager change before the season, if they could play the Mets all the time, they’d be up top. The thing you worry about is they get close enough at the end where they think it was just bad luck and major changes do not need to be made, because then I’ll be saying the same thing in 2005.

Do you realize the Mets are only one game ahead of the Expos for second worst record in the NL? They really really suck. I don’t believe I’ve ever seen a team fall completely apart as bad as they’ve done in the last couple months: 16-38 since the All Star Break. And it’s not like they were a good team to begin with, but that’s horrid. Sounds like Howe is the one taking the fall.

So we’ve got the Expos, the worst drawing team in the major leagues, the team without a home. And they’re facing the Marlins, who just two years ago only finished ahead of the Expos in attendance because of some last minute chicanery involving mysterious benefactors buying out massive amounts of tickets. And it’s happening in the home park of the White Sox, with a hugely apathetic and fair weather fan base.

10000? Not a chance. Surely under 5000. I’ll guess…3453.

Ichiro’s going to get the hits record, but your current ML AVG leader is once again Barry Bonds at .3746. (All he needs is 15 hits in his next 15 at bats, and he’s .400.)

He’ll get 700 tonight, why not.